Alex Bowman was back at the race track Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway, saying he’s back to feeling well after a month-long bout with vertigo.
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Bowman missed the last four Cup Series races with vertigo, which forced him to the sidelines during the March 1 event at Circuit of The Americas. Myatt Snider subbed in for Bowman the rest of the way in Austin, Texas, and O’Reilly Auto Parts Series regulars Anthony Alfredo (Phoenix) and Justin Allgaier (Las Vegas, Darlington, Martinsville) were fill-ins in subsequent weeks.
“Obviously, COTA wasn’t a lot of fun for me,” Bowman said Saturday. “I mean, everything was fine until it wasn’t obviously in the car — dizziness, throwing up on myself, spinning, all the things. So it wasn’t fun. Not pumped that I had to get out. Obviously, I’ve raced through a lot of injuries, but that was one where I was going to end up running into something or somebody, and the smart thing to do in that case was to get out. Just spent a lot of time with a lot of different doctors and had a lot of different help to go about the best rehab process possible and best practices going forward, and everything to get back to where I needed to be to get back in the car.”
But upon exiting the car at COTA, Bowman didn’t know if getting back in the car would ever be an option.
“Honestly, yeah, when I got out at COTA, I was like, this is probably it,” Bowman said. “Like, that was what was going through my head. So yeah, that sucked. Thankful that I get another shot at it.”
— NASCAR.com —